Congratulations on completing the SFR 300k brevet, Toshi, and thanks for sharing your easy-to-achieve weight-saving measures; 2 lbs is substantial, given the ease (okay; leaving the costs aside for a moment). Looks like you are planning to do a full brevet series this year.
Tom Atlanta, GA On Tuesday, March 11, 2025 at 10:09:42 PM UTC-4 ttoshi wrote: > Hi all, > > As part of my preparation for the really long rides, I decided to drop > weight on my bike where I thought I could compromise. > > Where did I lose substantial weight? > > 1. Plastic fenders to aluminum fenders (-300g) > 2. Hetre EL 42 mm--> Ecureil 38 mm (-260g) (Only front is Ecureil for 300k) > 3. Plastic saddle: Fizik Tempo Aliante R3 Adaptive (-200g) Really > comfortable for a plastic saddle. Does have a couple of points on sit > bones that I'm not used to (narrower than my normal saddle), but will > easily adapt (will not chafe). > 4. Front bag--Berthoud bag with decaleur needs no stiffener inserts (-200g) > > I also got some shiny (affordable, Chinese-made) titanium water bottle > cages on ebay that work great and save me another 40g. All in all, I'm > dropping over 2 lbs, which is pretty good. > > My training is a little lean, as I didn't do any rides over 15 miles long > over the last month between the 200k and 300k. However, I do commute to > work almost every day (5x/wk) and get about 1300 ft of daily climbing in. > > The 300k is really beautiful and not that hilly (relatively speaking), > which makes for a really nice ride. I've also done the ride many times, so > I know what I need to do to finish it. > > I finished at around 15 1/4 hours, which is great for me, given my lazy > conditioning. > > The much harder 400k and 600k are in the next two months. I hope to have > the fortitude to complete those rides. A pic from the start of the 300k is > below with my latest setup. > > Toshi > [image: IMG_2102.jpg] > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/cccc6cc0-7f31-4be1-9d07-609ff0ecb84en%40googlegroups.com.
